Vic mental health workers reject pay offer

Victoria's psychiatric nurses and mental health workers have rejected the state government's pay offer and are threatening industrial action unless there is a better deal.

The Government has offered a 2.5 per cent increase, with room to move to 3 per cent if the nurses give up some conditions.

Lloyd Williams from the Health and Community Services Union says a meeting of workers today rejected the offer and voted to give the Government until the end of March to put a better offer on the table.

"Our members have determined that a meeting of delegates scheduled for the 1st of April will determine and implement a campaign of industrial action should there be no substantial or no acceptable progress by that time," he said.